Massive strike shuts down LAUSD, leaving 420,000 students out of school
by Grace Toohey, Howard Blume and Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times
Mar 21, 2023
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES — A massive three-day strike calling for better wages and working conditions for some of Los Angeles public schools’ lowest paid employees — bus drivers, custodians, special education assistants and others — kicked off early Tuesday, with picketers marching through the dark, rainy morning.
Those striking school employees, joined in solidarity by the teachers union, shuttered the nation’s second-largest school system after last-minute efforts to avert the strike failed, disrupting learning, vital meal services and the daily lives of 420,000 children and their families.
By 5 a.m., when
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